How To Create a RestrictRun subkey to Enable Application Restrictions

In windows seven you can choose to Run Only Specified Windows Applications or Don’t Run Specified Windows Applications by editing the local group policy or gpedit.msc. When you choose to enable the option to Run Only Specified Windows Applications in the group policy editor, this obviously changes the registry settings for you.

In this article I will show you how to make this registry edit yourself without editing the local group policy. We are going to create a RestrictRun Dword entry to enable application restrictions.

1. Go to the start menu and in the search area type in regedit. See the screenshot below.

Now you will see the Windows registry.

Create a new DWORD value: RestrictRun

Open your registry as shown above and find the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Click on this.

Then find the software folder. Press on the plus sign next to this to see this folder expand.

Next expand Microsoft, then Windows, then Current version.

In this folder choose Policies, then Explorer.

At this point if you have already created restrictions for applications then you will see a Dword entry on the right called RestrictRun. If you do not have one created simply right click in the blank space, choose new, then choose Dword as shown below.

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5. Create a new DWORD value and name it “RestrictRun” set the value to “1” to enable application restrictions or “0” to allow all applications to run.

*Make sure to include “regedit.exe” because the restrictrun tweak also disables the merge function for .reg files and other file functions… such as .inf, .bat, .com etc… files. If you do not include regedit.exe then you will not be able to access the registry to edit this setting again!

For each program that you want to prevent users from running, create a new string value in the DisallowRunsubkey that you created in step 4. Use consecutive numbers to name the string values (starting with 1), and use the executable file name for the program as the data for the string value.For example, if you want to restrict users from running Microsoft Internet Explorer:

Right-click the following registry key, point to New, and then click String Value:

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